I am so fed up with my health centre, I haven't been able to get a doctors appointment, but I thought I'll be going for my yearly diabetic check up tomorrow, (which I booked nearly 5 weeks ago) then I received this message late this afternoon to tell me they've cancelled it...
I have a similar issue with my local health centre. After being diagnosed
as T2 in early February, and being prescribed medications in accord with
a current pathology report, they had arranged for a follow-up consultation
with the same doctor—one month later—to check on the meds, my BGLs
response, and for a referral for a second pathology report.
However, like you, I received a text message (what, no phone call?) saying
that my appointment had been cancelled due to the doctor "being away"
from the clinic.
Okay, we all have unexpected emergencies in our lives, so I can't begrudge
the doctor's decision on personal grounds.
But..... Surely the logical thing would've been for the clinic to simply arrange
for
one of their other doctors to see me on that day, and not simply cancel
my appointment entirely? After all, it was a relatively important consultation
with a medication review and updated pathology tests.
As a consequence of this, I've been unable to reappoint—for two reasons.
I suffer from a
Circadian rhythm sleep disorder, which makes it difficult to
book an appointment a week or more ahead, plus the fact that none of the
clinic doctors have available appointments until after the beginning of April.
As I live in a small rural town, access to adequate professional medical services
is very limited, and those that we do have are, of course, over-stretched. The
Australian federal government is neglecting the funding for rural health, or
denies that there are any issues that need additional federal health funding.
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